Charlie revealed she ‘spoke to death’ for the first time in an interview with The Sun last month

“Each day when I was aware I thought I was somewhere else and this day I felt I was in this black room, I was in a dark room and I was having a conversation with Death or God, or who knows what it was and that told me to go.

“And they’re telling me it’s your time now, you’re finished and I was like ‘well, OK, well maybe it is. I’m 33 but I’ve fought really hard and people know I love them and I’ve tried to do the best I can and live my life’ and all these things were going around my head.”

She added: “Within a split second I said no, I can’t yet. I can’t, I’ve got too much to do, and I feel that I made a decision to stay alive there and then.”

The 33-year-old had just completed a 3,000-mile bike ride for charity on her way out to the Rio Olympics when she contracted the disease.